Re: Changing physical drives to virtual

Tom,

Check out the white paper by Pete Massiello.
Building Virtual IBM i partitions on hosted IBM i.

I did something similar years back, all steps included for both the I and HMC, both host and client partitions.
If you any specifics, I may be able to help.

http://www.neugc.org/images/23A_-_Step_by_step_guide_to_Creating_Virtual_Partitions_Hosted_by_IBM_i.pdf

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Garvey
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 12:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Changing physical drives to virtual

OK, I've really been spinning my wheels on this and getting nowhere.
Perhaps someone can point me to the definitive manual or Redbook to direct me.
I have a Power7 server with a single v7r1 partition that owns all hardware, managed by an HMC.
The disk drives are configured as physical disks.
I need to create a new partition to install v7r3 but can't figure out how to share the disk storage.
I think my problem is that the v7r1 partition has the physical drives defined as just that.
I think I've read that to now create virtual disks from those physical drives that can be shared between the partitions the content on the physical drives will be wiped out.
Someone please tell me there's another way.

Tom Garvey


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